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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

How do antioxidants promote health?

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

Small wonder that supplements containing antioxidants to slow, stop or reverse the effects of aging enjoy great success in the marketplace.

What are antioxidants? And how does this free-radical sponge really work? As we believe that antioxidants can help us look younger, live longer, and be at our optimum health.

In 1900 Moses Gomberg first identified free radicals are molecular species that are highly reactive. As the cells produce energy (for function and survival), the also create oxygen molecules that are unstable because its electrons are unpaired. These unpaired electrons make this thing to be highly labile. These tiny things play a role in chemical reactions including that of the human.

Free radicals are highly reactive as they try to steal electrons from other molecules, including DNA and cellular membranes. Drinking, the radiation coming from TVs and computers, drugs, and cigarette smoking spawn free radicals.

It is very important that we don't give way to the formation of free radicals. In order to reduce the production of more free radical we should have enough sleep(at least seven hours) and stay active, exercise and live right.

The activities of the free radicals which are the changes in our body that damage the DNA and impair other vital functions of cells, cause harmful chemical reactions that damage cells and would mount up and cause our body to accelerate aging.

Free radical are detrimental to our body,as the same logic that oxidation damages metals. Upon breathing, oxygen induces a process called oxidation. And it is in here where free radicals form. This process is likened to the oxidation of metals. Once oxidized, aluminum turns to be white, iron becomes rusty, and copper transforms into green.

Antioxidants help to solve the problems listed above by mopping up the free radicals in the system, and having extra electrons that they are willing to give up to the free radicals, but the antioxidants do not become free radicals themselves in doing so.

Antioxidants work by significantly slowing or preventing the oxidative or damage from oxygen process caused by free radicals that can lead to cell dysfunction and the onset of problems like heart disease and diabetes.

These substances also prevent glaucoma and the age-related degeneration of our macula, the part of the eye that is dedicated for superior acuity vision. Antioxidants also beat down the passing of the aging clock making your skin and other organs rejoice.

As we get older, Glutathione - is said to be the most powerful antioxidants as are naturally present in our body since we were young is depleted. Supplements like Vitamin A, E, C and selenium, are known to be powerful antioxidants, plays an essential role in the synthesis of collagen.

If antioxidant supplements are not your type, you may take some delectable bite of the super fruits such as blueberry and raspberry which are said to contain the most number of antioxidants.

As you have the current understanding of antioxidants as reducing agents that break oxidative chain reactions, often by scavenging reactive oxygen species before they can cause damage to the cells, no wonder those magic tablets in such high demanding. - 17269

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